Frankie lad
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Maybe it would have made no difference but maybe it would.Why didn’t we play in sky blue?
Remember loads of Munich chants at that dump up to 1989. Oh and 27 seconds of silence managed at HM Queen death. Shameful inbred cunts.They've put out a statement condemning songs sung about Hillsborough from the away end and graffiti in the concourse. Which is fair enough.
No statement condemning the coin throwing though.
I don't think we pressed at all today, they passed out from the back very easily
Not defending his mistake in the slightest, I get we had an attacking free kick beforehand which like every set piece today was absolutely shit but Akanji or Ake should be covering there for me with their centre back experience, leaving Salah one on one with arguably our worst ‘defensive defender’ was a tactical mistake for me.Virtually every time we play at their place we gift them a fucking goal. How the fuck can WE have an attacking free kick, and once its taken the next touch we get is getting out of the net, joke goal and awful defending from Cancelo, the last man can not defend like that.
You probably missed the context then if you didn't watch the full game.
As you missed the game what happened was the referee has been letting the game flow allowing contact and physical challenges, he spots two players tussling for the ball, one uses his arm and upper body to unbalance the opposition player who loses balance and grabs the opposite players shirt while stumbling. The stumbling player plays the ball on and a goal is scored. The VAR team then decides to refer the referee to look at the monitor to review the goal decision he has made due to this tussling for the ball. The contact and "shirt pull" was nothing more extreme than had been going on all game and had no effect in the outcome of the fight for the ball (the player who was 'held back' was already falling and had lost control of the ball at that point).
In your opinion was the VAR operator right to call this as a "clear and obvious" error and to use his powers to effectively re-referee an ongoing game? If a referee has allowed a physical and robust match does the VAR operative have the authority to overrule the onfield referee when a goal has been scored after a period of play that has involved the same level of physical play that has been ongoing all match? At what point does an onfield referees decisions in allowing a physical contest become "clear and obvious" errors?
I agree with the Thiago red card though, he was flying in and would probably have deserved a yellow but as he slipped it wasn't in his control at that point so no card required in my opinion.
Well said my friend.I've read enough sorry excuses on here. Get yourself pissed, get to bed and wake up better for it. At the end of the day we conceded a solitary goal to a world class player. I still love City just as much as ever and i always will.
CTID
Totally agree, but I would add that for people to expect 100% perfection 100% of the time are going to continue to be disappointed for the rest of their lives. It would also soon become very boring if we won every match we ever played.Show me a top draw LB who is a shit hot defender???
Problem is all these RB or LB are now wing backs who are far far better going fwd & when it comes to the odd game & they have to defend more they become unstuck & get torn a new arsehole by these top FWD's in the world today
Alphonso Davies, Dani Alvez, Walker, Trent/Robertson, James, Peredes etc all love going fwd but all have defensive frailties
It's only a problem when it happens in these big games otherwise Cancelo has 9/10 game week in week out
If we had signed Cucurella, Raum or Chillwell it wouldn't matter imo
I would have Cancelo all day every day even if we see the odd fuck up
We had chances to win those games whether Cancelo fucked it or not just like the games in the last few seasons problem is as a team & that inc Pep we fucking mess it up & we can't seem to shake it off
Has it cost us the league today no but in Cup football it certainly does
Take our chances & we are talking about 16 point gap.
Move on
If it's a foul "every day of the week" why don't we see huge numbers of penalties from pretty much every corner taken on the game? Or loads of free kicks every 5 minutes in every game?I think the "clear and obvious" stuff is a bit of a red herring, and has taken on a mythology of its own. The ref wouldn't have seen the shirt pull in real time. He was told to look at it, and when you see it on the replay it's a foul every day of the week.